Laptop now runs very slowly when printing

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Philip Herlihy

A friend has a laptop that I recently removed a lot of viruses from. It's
now clean, except that the whole machine runs very slowly indeed when
anything is printing. Any ideas what might be causing that?
 
I'm exasperated (with myself) to be unable to remember what printer it is!
I've emailed my friend for details. Is PS or PCL significant? I've never
given it much thought - install printer, print pages...

I'll try reinstalling the drivers when I'm next there - as far as I recall
(few weeks ago) I used the CD which came with the printer - there may be
something more recent on the manufacturer's website.

Essentially the installation isn't that different - I found that I had to
re-register the DLLs for vbscript and JavaScript after cleaning up a lot of
malware. There's no sign of any remaining infection - just this performance
problem when printing.
 
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